I love the concept of solid bath products. I just don’t love adding SLS to my bath. It’s not because I believe SLS causes cancer. In fact, I don’t believe that. It’s only that SLS can be a drying agent and dry skin means wrinkled skin and wrinkled skin means that I look older than I want to look. So, I try to avoid SLS based bath products for fear of old wrinkly skin. I am a woman. I am vain.
I thought about bath fizzies. I thought about non-SLS lathering agents. Presto Changeo! Let’s combine the two!
I made a typical bath bomb:
2 parts baking soda
1 part citric acid
fragrance, color, witch hazel for moisture
(click here for more instructions on making bath fizzies)
I made the bath fizzy mixture and filled the molds 3/4 full. I popped the fizzies out and filled the bottom of the same fizzy mold with 1/4″ of melt and pour. I dropped the bath bomb into the melted soap and gasped as the fizzy started to fizz. 
I poured the remaining melt and pour over the exposed fizzy and looked on, horrified as the fizzy kept on fizzing.
After 2 minutes, the fizzy stopped making bubbles and turned into a poofy, strange, hard mass of … bathtime delight?
The hybrid fizzy didn’t work as well as I hoped. It expended its energy in about 21 seconds. 
But, it bubbled like crazy! Sadly the bubbles lasted for only a few minutes but really, how long does the attention span of most children last?It left a bit of detritus – bits of melt and pour, oils and sludge. I suspect that a better mix might be 15% melt and pour and 85% bath fizzy mixture.
Sigh. One more failed experiment. But every failure leads me closer to the perfect recipe.
